Overview

The quest for roots, the desire to penetrate the land in order to get a grip of the ground, characterize the  Zionist project; as though earth’s physicality can promise the formation of a new identity and strengthen its  foundation while sinking into the ground. “Bird what do sing, someone else sings through your throat,” asks  the Israeli poetess Yona Volach in her poem identity problems which surprisingly resonates with the current  Zionist condition. The laborious endeavour to rediscover or reconstruct a long-forgotten identity is always at  risk of segregating its beholder, who fearfully buries himself in the unsteady ground.